Utopian Socialist Quotes & Sayings

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He recalled what Phillip Pryce had said about hatred forming the undercurrent to the legal proceedings, and thought there had to be a way to turn that rage around. He thought the best lawyer finds a way to harness whatever external force is directed at his client and take advantage of it. — John Katzenbach

They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony. — Christine Jennings

To what extent did Castro at this point conceal secret communist purposes? He later said that he hid radical views in order to hold the anti-Batista coalition together, and this was probably true. But, though a radical, there is no conclusive evidence that he was then a Communist or even a Marxist-Leninist. Whatever he later became, he began as a romantic, left-wing nationalist - in his own phrase, a "utopian Socialist." He had tried to read Das Kapital at the University of Havana but, according to his own account, bogged down on page 370. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism. — A.E. Samaan

Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner. — Chris D'Lacey

Joshen tipped her chin up and kissed her. He was always soft and gentle, but today Senna felt an undeniable hunger somewhere deep inside him. He was trying to suppress it. But she didn't want that. She wanted him to banish the lingering foulness of the curse and the fear that had never released her from its sweaty grasp, replacing all of that with the sweet taste of his mouth. — Amber Argyle

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

Who realizes how contented feral children are? The grasp of the family fell away as soon as I was out the door. — Michael Ondaatje

If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes. — Paul Volcker

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"?? — A.E. Samaan

I don't know what comes next. I can't know, until I've walked the road I've chosen. I slow at the thought. I don't have a plan, and there is no map for this. It's terrifying, but there's a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be the right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret. — Jessi Kirby

For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us. — Erma Bombeck

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs. — Sean Connery

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism. — A.E. Samaan

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working. — Edward McKendree Bounds

To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities. — Daniel Guerin